Posts Tagged: Ford
You have found a 1969 Mustang Mach 1 fastback for a price that feels too good to be true, and the seller keeps saying it just needs “a little rust repair.” That sentence has ended more restoration dreams than any engine problem ever has. On these cars the rust you can see is rarely the rust that decides what the project will cost. The metal hiding behind carpet, under seam sealer, and inside the frame rails is what separates a rewarding build from a bottomless money pit. Before you hand over a deposit, here is what to look for, what the federal records say, and why a rough Mach 1 is still very much worth saving.
Only two buyers in 1966 ordered a Ford 7-Litre convertible with the dual-carburetor R-Code 427 instead of the standard 428 — and this Brothers Collection car is one of them. Muscle Car Of The Week digs into what actually separates the R-Code’s cross-bolted big block from the ordinary version riding under most 7-Litre badges. Watch to see why this one stopped the crew in their tracks.
You find a 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 with a 390 under the hood for under ten grand, and your first instinct is to worry about the engine. That is the wrong worry. The tires are twenty years old, the battery is seven, and spider webs fill the cabin, yet owners who have been down this road say the iron under the hood is the cheap part of the story. The expensive part is everything you can see from the driver’s seat. Here is how to tell a bargain from a bottomless project before you hand over a deposit.
Tim Wellborn built one of the deepest private Mopar collections in the country, including a genuine NASCAR Daytona raced by K&K Insurance and a limelight-green Hemi four-speed he refuses to restore. When Rocket Restorations’ Tom mentioned he was a fan of the channel, Tim didn’t just say thanks — he flew him down for a personal tour and a drive. Watch to see what fifty years of collecting looks like from behind the wheel.
A Mustang crossing into a barricaded construction zone, a driver who may have hit both pedals at once, and a comment section that has spent years trying to figure out exactly what happened — this brief dashcam clip punches well above its modest view count. One recurring theory blames pedal confusion; another blames the tires entirely. Watch the few seconds of footage and decide for yourself which explanation holds up.
You finally found it: a clean-looking 1970 Torino with the right stance, the right engine note, and a seller who says it “just needs a little cowl work.” Those six words can quietly turn a weekend project into a months-long rebuild. According to a restorer who has worked on more than his share of Ford unibodies, the 1970-71 Torino cowl is the most complex cowl design he has personally tackled, and getting to it means tearing out heavy bracing and drilling countless spot welds. Worse, the upper cowl plates on a rusted example aren’t currently reproduced by AMD. Before you hand over a deposit, here is what buyers need to understand about the one area that can make or break a Torino purchase.
A 1934 Ford coupe wearing the bones of a wrecked sixth-generation Camaro ZL1 has no business working as well as it does. The donor brought a supercharged 650-horsepower LT4, magnetic dampers, and Brembo brakes to a body shell built when Ford’s best V8 made 85 horsepower. The nickname Road Kill R came from how the parts were sourced. Read on to find out why this particular pairing splits the hot rod world down the middle.
EricTheCarGuy tears down a Ford 302 for the long-running #FairmontProject expecting a straightforward rebuild — until the inspection turns up a problem that changes the entire plan. The video’s own description admits the block likely won’t work, then pivots straight into the next phase: a turbo kit already in development. Watch to see exactly what disqualified the block, and what comes next.
